Massive Maclaren Recall

[NormaSknockers]

Info can be found here

Basically anything from 1999 - 2009

ok I know it's not funny and apologies in advance to all those who have lost limbs opening a maclaren buggy but LOL at his reconstruction with the baby dolly!

I did at that

rofl at "DONT PUT YOUR FINGER IN THERE!"

That would be guaranteed to attract my DD's to wondering what would happen if I just......

Oh I was hoping we would all get replacements.

Is this just for USA though or UK too? Can't get on the mac website though, crashing/timing out

I think it is only in the US. Oh well

Am heading off to GMTV bright and early tomorrow to dicuss this, so if you've any thoughts - BBC report here - then please post them here.
Cheers.

Aren't you the fortunate one Justine, how early is that then!

Are they going to ban double glazed doors as well, because they can amputate your finger if you put your finger between the door and frame at the wrong time!

Tell them I want a brand new XT please since i've been wandering around aimlessly for the last 6 years with a dangerous potentially amputating device unwittingly and therain cover has broken and the pram has lasted for three children and is really scruffy and really needs replacing

I used my Maclaren every day for 3 years. If everyone did the same with them that means there were 1 accident for every 24 million times the a buggy was used Well done Maclaren for doing the right thing - but they were pretty unlucky I think you have to agree.

My surgeon friend tells me that he has to do a lot of work on kids who get their fingers stuck in doors. Let's talk about that if we really want to save little fingers.

There are a lot of dangers in our world... yes the mechanism could cause serious damage to fingers - as can doors of various types including car doors (imagine a child sat in babyseat sticking their arm out).

You don't fold the buggy with the child in it, so the risk must be quite low. Given the number of those buggies being used in the world... I do wonder what percentage of use results in injury.

Justine - see the other thread about this in chat - we (well I mostly) just dont understand why and how this could happen if you are watching your dc. Why would they be lurking around the bottom of the buggy at your feet as you put it up - thats obviously not safe isnt it?

You'd have to be literally putting it up and looking the other way as you did so...

Thanks will take a look.

Damn I thought I was going to get a new buggy too!

Justine, Someone should do a Professor Nutt style analysis of the statistics of this one.

Total nos of toddlers who have their fingers amputated by "killer" buggies (v. v. small)
Total nos of toddlers killed by cars because they refuse to get in their buggies (etc) (etc)

There are so many other things which are statistically much worse, but we ignore them- like doors (as cauli says), road traffic, grapes (etc). And, if we're on pushchairs, Stokkes over-tipping, Bugaboo bees catching on the ledge of tube trains, lightweight strollers tipping backwards under the weight of bags- they all have their design flaws.

Reminds me of when I worked in health stats, sitting around A&E departments asking folk what caused their accidents. Most deadly item in the home? Slippers. Whose going to do a mass recall of them then?

How can they get away without recalling or repairing them in the UK then?

The buggies are exactly the same!

Personally, I think you'd have to be pretty damn stupid to chop a finger off in one.

Isn't this akin to plastering all Bumbos in the US with labels saying 'Don't be a dumbass and put it on the kitchen worksurface!' after a few litigious idiots threatened to sue Bumbo because they were unbelievably thick?

So maybe we shouldn't take the lack of a recall in the UK as a token of MacLaren's contempt for the British consumer, but rather as one of respect for our intelligence?

Should add that of course I am very, very disappointed that there won't be a recall here - my MacLaren hood is getting quite mucky and would have liked a new one.

I agree that maclaren should recall the buggies over here but not on the grounds of amputation of fingers(necessarily),how about injury to feet and toes.
My baby was injured by one of these buggies, the footrest was the issue,the buggies have a rubber raised logo on the footrest and my littly cut his toes through his clothes on this.
Maclaren offered a liner to solve the issue but that also has the same raised logo. They also offered an older seat cover as a replacement. I feel this was a cop out on maclarens behalf.
I have since seen many liitle ones in these buggies and it makes me shiver to know what can happen.Saw a very unhappy baby with red feet in a local resturant, were they the next stat?
Needless to say you can still purchase the affected products.
My point, you can possible prevent your childs finger from becoming trapped but you can't stop a baby kicking and squirming.
How many babies have been and will be affected before Maclaren change the design.

On the 30th October this year my 3 year old son had the tip of his finger amputated by a McLaren buggy in the same way described in the recall notice issues in the US. He climbed in to our McLaren stroller as it was being put up (it happened in seconds)and the tip of his left hand ring finger was amputated.
The hospital attempted to re-attach it but we will not know whether this was successful for another 3-6 weeks in the meantime my son is having to visit hospital to have his dressing changed every 7-10 days and isn't able to use his left hand effectively. I'm sure you can imagine having the tip of your finger removed is incredibly painful and was a very distressing experience for us all.

I am disgusted that so far the recall is only for the US - the comment that UK standards are different is clearly not the case and I am extremely angry the recall isn't being extended to the UK.

While I agree that accidents happen (until we saw the product recall that's what we had put it down to) and that doors etc are all dangerous too, anything that can be done to protect our childrens safety (within reason I'm not one of the wrap them up in cotten wool brigade!!) should be done!

So sorry to hear of sezdee's distress, totally sypmathize and agree.
May be now a recall in uk. And a total redisign, Come on maclaren get it together in the uk.

Sezdee your poor ds

Sezdee that's awful So sorry to hear about poor DS